Christopher Hitchens is one of the most prolific and controversial
writers in the English-speaking world. A prominent atheist, he is the
author of "God is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything," which
became an international best-seller in 2007. He has also written books
on topics ranging from the partition of Cyprus to Thomas Jefferson and
the Anglo-American relationship; his most recent is the memoir "Hitch
22."

RFE/RL writer at large James Kirchick recently interviewed
Hitchens at his home in Washington about his left-wing revolutionary
past, his views on America, Iran's nuclear program, Turkey's Islamist
turn, Putin's Russia, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and sampled his
views on a variety of international figures.

Hitchens' first book
was a history of Cyprus, the Mediterranean island invaded by Turkey in
1974. He has closely followed Turkey's internal politics and here
discusses the debate over whether it should join the European Union.